Resolve our queries: state thy judgment clear."
Sackville now plays the "high heroical," and talks through six pages; but to what purpose I am unable to conjecture. There seems to be a great deal of angry remonstrance—of offensive remonstrance:
"When I ask [says Sackville to Ferdinand], didst ever thou consult
A chief, till now, and wait the sage result?
When Aalm's camp was deluged all in rain,
And floods rusht o'er an undistinguisht plain,
To thy flint heart remonstrances were vain:
What, then, avail'd neglected Marlbro's prayers!
His instances? His unremitted cares?
The Elector's stables had sufficient room,